The Colonial Despatches: Cape of Good Hope

Cape of Good Hope

This rocky, storm-lashed cape lies at the end of Cape Penninsula, South Africa. It was renamed by the Portuguese, from its original name, Cape of Storms, to Good Hope, as its discovery provided a good omen for the possibility that India could be reached by sea from Europe.1

1. Cape of Good Hope, Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Mentions of this place in the documents

King, Edward Hammond to Lytton, Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer 13 July 1858, CO 6:28, no. 6814, 162.
Hamilton, George Alexander to Adderley, C. B. 15 June 1868, CO 60:34, no. 6280, 387.
Cardwell, Edward to Kennedy, Arthur 16 March 1866, NAC :, 344.
Sargeaunt, William Charles to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 6 February 1866, CO 305:30, no. 1278, 46.
Alston, E. Graham to Cardwell, Edward 24 February 1866, CO 305:30, no. 1930, 281.
Grenville, Richard to Seymour, Governor Frederick 25 June 1868, NAC :, 203.
Seymour, Governor Frederick to Grenville, Richard 3 February 1868, CO 60:32, no. 3373, 33.
Douglas, Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 3 March 1864, CO 305:22, no. 4050, 43.
Julyan, Penrose Goodchild to Elliot, Thomas Frederick 20 November 1865, CO 60:23, no. 11406, 78.
Tennent, Sir James Emerson to Merivale, Herman 18 September 1858, CO 60:2, no. 9582, 228.
Sargeaunt, William Charles to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 21 May 1868, CO 60:34, no. 5304, 76.
Cardwell, Edward to Birch, Arthur Nonus 31 January 1866, NAC :, 58.
Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic to Merivale, Herman 23 March 1859, CO 60:5, no. 3087, 508.
Elliot, Thomas Frederick to Douglas, Sir James 2 February 1863, CO 410:1, 400.
Seymour, Governor Frederick to Grenville, Richard 3 August 1868, CO 60:33, no. 9941, 156.
The Colonial Despatches: Begbie, Matthew Baillie
Childers, Hugh C. E. to Rogers, Baron Blachford Frederic 3 March 1866, CO 305:30, no. 2132, 99.
The Colonial Despatches: Elphinstone-Holloway, Colonel William Cuthbert

The Colonial Despatches Team. Cape of Good Hope. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/cape_good_hope.html.

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Cape of Good Hope